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The Open Games - A detailed overview

The Open Games begin after the moves 1.e4 e5. The name results from the fact that the position often opens quickly which might lead to an early clash of the enemy pieces. Typical examples are the Scotch Opening, the Two Knights Defence or the venerable King’s Gambit. But the most important openings after 1.e4 e5 are the Italian Game and the Ruy Lopez, and here the game often develops more slowly. On this DVD the International Master Georgios Souleidis presents these and all other relevant openings arising after 1.e4 e5 in 36 videos.

He particularly focuses on the main lines and explains the common plans and ideas from White’s and from Black’s perspective. On top of that he analyses the Open Games that come with more variations in 36 articles in text format (pgn). The videos offer an introduction to the respective openings and include interactive tasks that help you to directly apply what you have learned. The articles are more detailed and help to deepen the understanding of the material. The author also presents carefully selected model games by top grandmasters and experts in correspondence chess, which start where the lines in the videos and articles end. The difficulty increases from video to video, depending on how relevant the opening is. The concept of this DVD makes it ideal for ambitious juniors and amateurs who want to play one of the openings presented, but the DVD is also very helpful for strong players who can take the material on the DVD as a basis from which to explore an opening further. But of course the DVD is also well-suited for those who have always wanted to have a comprehensive overview about the Open Games on one DVD.

• Video running time: 8 h (English)
• With interactive training incuding video feedback
• Extra: Workout as database and PDF
• Including CB Reader

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This is what is delivered:

  • Fritztrainer App for Windows
  • Available as download or on DVD
  • Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
  • Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
  • Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
  • Sample games as a ChessBase database.

That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:

  • Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
  • Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
  • Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
  • Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
  • Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
  • Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.

Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!

  • The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
  • Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
  • Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
  • Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
  • Replay training
  • LiveBook active
  • All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
  • Assisted Analysis
  • Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)

Sample video

Contents

  • Intro [06:26]
  • The following database includes all articles, analyses and carefully selected model games:
  • Model Games
  • All PDF articles combined in one file:
  • PDF: The Open Games
  • Rare Openings
  • Prevent scholar's mate PDF Analysis [03:48]
  • Prevent scholar's mate: Puzzle 1 [01:47]
  • Center Game PDF Analysis [10:16]
  • Center Game: Puzzle 1 [00:52]
  • Center Game: Puzzle 2 [00:57]
  • Latvian Gambit PDF Analysis [09:23]
  • Latvian Gambit: Puzzle 1 [00:54]
  • Latvian Gambit: Puzzle 2 [00:50]
  • Ponziani - Opening PDF Analysis [08:07]
  • Ponziani - Opening: Puzzle 1 [02:00]
  • Ponziani - Opening: Puzzle 2 [02:02]
  • King's Gambit
  • King's Gambit accepted PDF Analysis [11:11]
  • King's Gambit accepted: Puzzle 1 [02:34]
  • King's Gambit accepted: Puzzle 2 [01:34]
  • King's Gambit accepted: Puzzle 3 [01:38]
  • King's Gambit declined PDF Analysis [09:50]
  • King's Gambit declined: Puzzle 1 [02:19]
  • King's Gambit declined: Puzzle 2 [02:14]
  • King's Gambit declined: Puzzle 3 [01:24]
  • Vienna Game
  • Vienna Game PDF Analysis [10:45]
  • Vienna Game: Puzzle 1 [01:38]
  • Vienna Game: Puzzle 2 [02:56]
  • Vienna Game: Puzzle 3 [02:41]
  • Bishop's Opening
  • Bishop's Opening PDF Analysis [09:54]
  • Bishop's Opening: Puzzle 1 [01:00]
  • Bishop's Opening: Puzzle 2 [01:36]
  • Philidor Defence
  • Philidor Defence PDF Analysis [09:12]
  • Philidor Defence: Puzzle 1 [00:41]
  • Philidor Defence: Puzzle 2 [01:49]
  • Petrov's Defence
  • Petrov's Defence 3.d4 PDF Analysis [09:04]
  • Petrov's Defence 3.d4: Puzzle 1 [02:28]
  • Petrov's Defence 3.d4: Puzzle 2 [02:08]
  • Petrov's Defence 3.d4: Puzzle 3 [01:54]
  • Petrov's Defence 3.Nxe5 PDF Analysis [09:49]
  • Petrov's Defence 3.Nxe5: Puzzle 1 [02:56]
  • Petrov's Defence 3.Nxe5: Puzzle 2 [02:16]
  • Petrov's Defence 3.Nxe5: Puzzle 3 [02:23]
  • Four Knights Game
  • Four Knights Game PDF Analysis [11:39]
  • Four Knights Game: Puzzle 1 [01:03]
  • Four Knights Game: Puzzle 2 [01:22]
  • Scotch Game
  • Scotch Game 4...Nf6 PDF Analysis [10:25]
  • Scotch Game 4...Nf6: Puzzle 1 [02:08]
  • Scotch Game 4...Nf6: Puzzle 2 [02:10]
  • Scotch Game 4...Bc5 PDF Analysis [09:26]
  • Scotch Game 4...Bc5: Puzzle 1 [02:06]
  • Scotch Game 4...Bc5: Puzzle 2 [01:30]
  • Hungarian Defence
  • Hungarian Defence PDF Analysis [09:52]
  • Hungarian Defence: Puzzle 1 [01:41]
  • Hungarian Defence: Puzzle 2 [01:08]
  • Hungarian Defence: Puzzle 3 [01:24]
  • Two Knights Defence
  • Two Knights Defence 4.d4 PDF Analysis [10:15]
  • Two Knights Defence 4.d4: Puzzle 1 [01:15]
  • Two Knights Defence 4.d4: Puzzle 2 [00:57]
  • Two Knights Defence 4.d4: Puzzle 3 [01:09]
  • Two Knights Defence 4.Ng5 PDF Analysis [08:40]
  • Two Knights Defence 4.Ng5: Puzzle 1 [01:00]
  • Two Knights Defence 4.Ng5: Puzzle 2 [03:25]
  • Two Knights Defence Main line PDF Analysis [10:21]
  • Two Knights Defence Main line: Puzzle 1 [01:17]
  • Two Knights Defence Main line: Puzzle 2 [00:50]
  • Giuoco Piano
  • Evans Gambit PDF Analysis [11:39]
  • Evans Gambit: Puzzle 1 [01:42]
  • Evans Gambit: Puzzle 2 [01:01]
  • Evans Gambit: Puzzle 3 [01:00]
  • Italian Gambit PDF Analysis [11:10]
  • Italian Gambit: Puzzle 1 [00:52]
  • Italian Gambit: Puzzle 2 [01:07]
  • Italian Gambit: Puzzle 3 [00:47]
  • Moeller Attack PDF Analysis [09:06]
  • Moeller Attack: Puzzle 1 [01:02]
  • Moeller Attack: Puzzle 2 [01:19]
  • Moeller Attack: Puzzle 3 [01:21]
  • Main line with a2-a4 PDF Analysis [11:10]
  • Main line with a2-a4: Puzzle 1 [01:07]
  • Main line with a2-a4: Puzzle 2 [01:55]
  • Main line PDF Analysis [11:30]
  • Main line: Puzzle 1 [00:50]
  • Main line: Puzzle 2 [01:47]
  • Main line: Puzzle 3 [00:53]
  • Ruy Lopez
  • Rare moves after 3.Bb5 PDF Analysis [10:50]
  • Rare moves after 3.Bb5: Puzzle 1 [01:05]
  • Rare moves after 3.Bb5: Puzzle 2 [01:27]
  • Rare moves after 3.Bb5: Puzzle 3 [01:05]
  • Schliemann-Jaenisch Gambit PDF Analysis [11:54]
  • Schliemann-Jaenisch Gambit: Puzzle 1 [01:00]
  • Schliemann-Jaenisch Gambit: Puzzle 2 [01:13]
  • Berlin Defence PDF Analysis [11:19]
  • Berlin Defence: Puzzle 1 [01:02]
  • Berlin Defence: Puzzle 2 [01:30]
  • Berlin Defence: Puzzle 3 [02:02]
  • Exchange Variation PDF Analysis [10:07]
  • Exchange Variation: Puzzle 1 [02:23]
  • Exchange Variation: Puzzle 2 [01:00]
  • Modern Steinitz Defence PDF Analysis [11:23]
  • Modern Steinitz Defence: Puzzle 1 [00:57]
  • Modern Steinitz Defence: Puzzle 2 [01:14]
  • Modern Steinitz Defence: Puzzle 3 [01:43]
  • Open Defence PDF Analysis [09:59]
  • Open Defence: Puzzle 1 [00:46]
  • Open Defence: Puzzle 2 [02:04]
  • Open Defence: Puzzle 3 [01:29]
  • Modern Variation PDF Analysis [14:48]
  • Modern Variation: Puzzle 1 [01:04]
  • Modern Variation: Puzzle 2 [01:37]
  • Modern Variation: Puzzle 3 [01:04]
  • 6.d3 (Deviations from 6.Re1) PDF Analysis [08:57]
  • 6.d3 (Deviations from 6.Re1): Puzzle 1 [01:47]
  • 6.d3 (Deviations from 6.Re1): Puzzle 2 [01:38]
  • Marshall Attack PDF Analysis [10:57]
  • Marshall Attack: Puzzle 1 [01:08]
  • Marshall Attack: Puzzle 2 [01:12]
  • Karpov - Variation PDF Analysis [08:36]
  • Karpov - Variation: Puzzle 1 [00:50]
  • Karpov - Variation: Puzzle 2 [00:57]
  • Saizev - Variation PDF Analysis [10:33]
  • Saizev - Variation: Puzzle 1 [00:48]
  • Saizev - Variation: Puzzle 2 [00:55]
  • Saizev - Variation: Puzzle 3 [01:24]
  • Breyer Variation PDF Analysis [11:21]
  • Breyer Variation: Puzzle 1 [00:54]
  • Breyer Variation: Puzzle 2 [01:30]
  • Breyer Variation: Puzzle 3 [00:54]
  • Chigorin Variation PDF Analysis [08:41]
  • Chigorin Variation: Puzzle 1 [00:55]
  • Chigorin Variation: Puzzle 2 [01:09]
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Open Games

After 1.e4 e5 we have the so-called Open Games. Previously this move order was almost obligatory and this is how some of the most famous games in the history of chess began, such as the Immortal and the Evergreen games. Nowadays beginners learn first of all to play the open games, and it is only in this group of openings that we can come across Scholar’s Mate (2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Qxf7 mate). But at the same time 1...e5 is considered to be the most solid continuation of them all and so dominates top level chess.

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